On May 5th 2026, Dr. Nico Esselin has presented SKFP solutions for recycling plastics at PRSE 2026 exhibition.
The presentation, whose title was “Enhancing Mechanical Performance of Recycled Plastics through Advanced Additive Solutions” attracted more than 90 attendees.
Ensuring that recycled plastics achieve mechanical performance comparable to that of virgin materials requires the development of high-performance solutions effective at low additive loadings. This challenge is particularly significant as recycled feedstocks often exhibit variable and degraded properties.
In many applications, compounders must simultaneously improve multiple material characteristics, including impact resistance, durability, processability, and aesthetic properties. Addressing these combined requirements necessitates the use of advanced functional additives.
In this context, SKFP has developed innovative additive such as LOTRYL® 40MA05T copolymers. This material is an ethylene–methyl acrylate (EMA) functional polymer with a high methyl acrylate content of 40%. This unique composition provides a distinctive balance of flexibility, compatibility, and mechanical performance.
LOTRYL® 40MA05T is a newly developed additive designed as a multipurpose solution. In addition to its primary role in impact modification, it enhances mechanical properties under UV and thermal exposure. The additive also contributes to maintaining surface gloss under ageing conditions and improves recyclability over multiple processing cycles, including re-granulating, compounding, and injection molding.
This technology has been specifically developed to support recyclers, compounders, and masterbatch producers in integrating recycled polymers such as rABS, rHIPS, and rPC/ABS into high-performance materials. Furthermore, it facilitates the incorporation of recycled PET (rPET) into applications such as PET strapping.
The graph below that shows that LOTRYL® 40MA05T shows that its performance to improve the toughness of high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is higher than the current modifier, LOTRYL® 29MA03T.
The slides showed during the presentation can be found in the literature section. https://sk-fp.com/about-sk-functional-polymer/brochure/